<p>NYU may be on par with the ivies but the SAT’s are much lower than any of the ivies or even top schools so I don’t see the sonnection.</p>
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<p>Have you considered Georgetown?</p>
<p>In addition to Georgetown (or almost any DC school) Pomona and Tufts would be good to consider.</p>
<p>OP, I’d stick to your guns. Only consider additional safeties if the early action/decision school doesn’t work out. No reason to be as pessimistic as some of the other posters on this thread who obviously are not urm. The leeway in admissions afforded to URM in admissions should not be underestimated. Additionally, Michigan as a “reach” (according to one poster) with a 35 ACT and a 3.8 GPA is laughable.</p>
<p>Blah’s advice is just plain dangerous. For most of us who are urging prudence, admission isn’t the only issue. There is also paying the price tag.</p>
<p>That being said, getting in actually is an issue, too. The thing I learned from interviewing applicants for my Ivy alma mater is that nobody is a sure “admit” any more. Not legacies. Not Native Americans. Nobody. </p>
<p>Wait, I take that back. *If *she has good grades an good SATs, in a few years Malia Obama will be a shoo-in. But I’m guessing that the OP isn’t the daughter of a POTUS.</p>
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<p>Michigan is a big reach based on cost, since its net price calculator indicates that, after applying non-loan financial aid, the net cost will be $24,000 to $35,000 per year for a very low income non-Michigan resident. So, unless there are some large outside scholarships, the target at Michigan would be a large merit scholarship, not merely admission (and if there are no large enough merit scholarships, it is out of reach).</p>
<p>In response to Sikorsky, Not really. The OP can apply to Michigan early action and Princeton early action (need to determine if it’s still restricted) to get early financial aid offers. What exactly is the risk there? If the OP does’t get into either, the OP can reevaluate things and consider additional “financial” and admissions safeties. Most of the schools on his/her list, save Mich and NYU, are generous.</p>
<p>Yes, the OP can apply to Michigan EA and see what kind of financial aid and scholarships comes… but there is no way that Michigan can be considered a safety based on the cost issue, unless there is some large guaranteed-for-stats merit scholarship available.</p>
<p>Princeton EA is SCEA, but only with respect to other private schools in the US that are not rolling admissions; a student applying SCEA to Princeton can apply EA (but not ED) to public schools, schools outside the US, and schools with rolling admissions.</p>
<p>^I was referring to admissions, not financial aid - which is clearly what the other poster was referring to:</p>
<p>"I just flat out dont even understand where the separation between these schools are. From what ive learned NYU is a school capable to hang with the ivies and such so why it would be your safety is just ridiculous. </p>
<p>You have great stats but all the schools above should be your reaches. UMich is the least competitive of the list and id still put them on a reach-probable list."</p>
<p>I think the best best for the OP is to apply to a generous reach EA and consider questbridge.</p>
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<p>Yes, that can be done, but the OP should also have some safeties at least in mind (and be ready to apply to them before their admission and scholarship deadlines if no favorable decision from any EA school comes in time).</p>
<p>Right now, the OP’s two “safeties” are both reaches for cost and financial aid, so they are not actual safeties.</p>
<p>^Questbridge would alleviate a lot of the concerns.</p>
<p>What would be some good safetys? As far as admissions. Because in all honesty there is no financial safety for me. </p>
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<p>No, I think there can be financial safeties. There are universities and colleges, many of them quite respectable, that will provide guaranteed merit aid to applicants with 3.8 and 35. (Alabama always comes first to everyone’s mind; I’m sure there are others.) The colleges that do this don’t have the panache of Princeton, but the would allow a serious, hard working student of limited means to graduate from college debt-free.</p>
<p>And I also agree about Questbridge.</p>
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<p>Possible financial safety candidate:</p>
<p>Full ride at University of Alabama Huntsville for 3.0 GPA and 34 ACT: <a href=“http://www.uah.edu/images/admissions/Financial%20Aid/Documents/scholarship.pdf[/url]”>http://www.uah.edu/images/admissions/Financial%20Aid/Documents/scholarship.pdf</a></p>
<p>Also, don’t be so quick to reject your in-state public schools (University of Hawaii); at least check their net price calculators.</p>
<p>If you do not include some financial safeties in your application list, then your default safety becomes your local community college, followed by transfer to a four year school – probably University of Hawaii, since large merit scholarship offers are less common for transfers, and many of the most generous with financial aid schools accept few transfers.</p>
<p>il for sure add more safeties now… nothing like the idea of stayong in ha</p>
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<p>of staying in hawaii to make me go crazy. woops sry bout the two posts</p>
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<p>What is your intended major? Your school depends on that as much as anything else</p>